Day: October 24, 2021

Reincarnating Constable Ifeanyi at the Lekki Toll Gate By Festus Adedayo

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Oga, mek we kill am!, the gangling police constable had told my father. This was sometime in the early 1980s and the scene was the ever-busy Ilesa-Akure expressway, in the old Oyo, now Osun State. My father, an Inspector in the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), headed the Ilesa Signals Corps of the police. However, short of officers to lead police patrols, in the light of the ever-bludgeoning criminal activities in the Ife-Ijesa zone of the time, the Divisional Police Officer authoritatively yanked the Inspector from his signals unit office drudgery.…

Abolongo (Oyo) Jailbreak/Attack ? By Adejare Ibrahim

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The day I heard that Agodi Prison in Ibadan was filled to the brim and could no longer accommodate inmates, and Abolongo was the next destination. That day, I knew we were sitting on a time bomb. In 2007, when Abolongo Prison was established and inamtes were moved from Lagbodoko Prison, it was created to accommodate 170 inmates (both on awaiting-trial list and convicts). Unfortunately, this 170-capacity correctional facility, before yesterday’s attack, was housing about 900 inmates. Imagine! That means people are packed like sardines in that medium security facility.…